akroberts1085
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Thank youLooks like a cockerel in that photo! So Petey!
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Thank youLooks like a cockerel in that photo! So Petey!
I cycled a Rubbermaid trash bin filter for my 300-gallon plastic tank with pure ammonia. It completed the breakdown of ammonia to nitrite and nitrite to nitrate, but I didn't stop feeding the pure ammonia until the KH went to zero and the nitrification process went dormant. Baking soda kicked it back up, so I have been using it since then.Yup. I test water weekly with multi parameter strips but test my minerals monthly with the liquid tests. About every 6 months I do a 30-40% change on the 75G due to the GH beginning to build up. I clean my canister filters on both of my big tanks pretty regularly so I can feed the mulm water to the garden.
I could see coral sand causing milky water. I'm not sure how coarse it is, but giving it a thorough rinse before use would solve that. I would be hesitant to use a fine crushed coral that couldn't be put in the mesh bag to easily remove when needed. The stuff I use is worth the cost for my purpose. I hardly ever have to replace it and it rinses easily. My substrate is pretty much neutral at this point. Though my 40G has a bag of peat pellets in the canister to buffer the pH down slightly for the livestock and plants in it.
Agree.That just can't be! 5 gallon bucket evaporate? Something, or someone, was thirsty now just who was that crafty devil? Snuck in, drank the water & left without a trace, not even a tell tale turd...I am suggesting setting up some sort of camera to see what's going on! You've got to have some ornery joker or crazy critter taking that water!
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I used to feel as if I had a blowtorch aimed at my back...I don't miss it, at all.I've had hot flashes so bad that I was legit SERIOUSLY tempted to stand naked outside during a snow storm. . I told DH "it's snowing. No one will be able to see me..." His response "except your horrified teenage children..."
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